Ichiro…. Sorry… ..you are not busy?
Unexpectedly for me, she spoke to me.
-Em, I think I'm free now. Tooru you go for now, I'll be here a little longer. Make me some lemon tea please.
-Yes master.
"… ..So what did you want to talk about Mrs. Kimiko about?
-Ummm, can we not talk in the hallway? Would you mind walking with me to the garden?
-Oh well .
And after that there was a silence in which we actually walked to the garden.
-Ummm I heard that you went to the Land of the Bear. Are you okay ? Well, I mean, you weren't hurt?
- Well, I was a little wounded, but our doctors do their job well.
-Ah ... that's very good.
… ..
And again, this is not a clever silence, hell, I do not know what to do in such situations.
Why did I agree to this at all? I don't like such serious conversations.
"Kimiko-san, did you invite me to talk about something specific?" or do you just want to walk in silence, I do not mind either one or the other.
-No, I just don't know how to tell you, that is, where to start ...
-Are you about us? About my attitude towards you? Or something else?
- Well, yes, I would like to apologize for ... ..
-Aah, you shouldn't worry about it, I understand everything and know the whole situation, so I don't blame you for anything, the old man told me about you and your father, and I don't want to interfere. On the contrary, I am grateful to you, you gave me life, gave me a chance, and I don't need more.
-But I thought you hated me, because I treated you so badly ..
-How bad? You didn't beat me, you didn't humiliate me, you were just neutral, is that bad?
-So ... ... can we start over?
You know when, an adult girl, who is also your biological mother, looks at you with such hope, it becomes somehow a little ashamed or something ... ..
- I don't know, you know, I can't call you a mother, because the mother is not the one who gave birth, but the one who brought up, but you can try to become something like an aunt ... .. if you want to establish contact, I don't mind.
-Ah… .this… well… .thank you very much.
- Well, I think I'll go. It's already getting dark Kimiko-san, I think it's time for you to go home too.
I said and went to my room, I think I did more or less the right thing.
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- Sir, did you talk to her?
-What do you think I was doing all this time?
- Well, it is logical ... ..I made you tea as you asked.
-Oh thank you. By the way, what do you think still works on the Kaga? It seems like it's already ten in the evening ...
-I think that at such a dangerous time he is constantly in his office, but why do you need it?
-Yes, I need to give him an answer about one mission, he gave me a deadline until tomorrow, but I decided now, but because I wanted to do nothing tomorrow, I wanted to inform him now.
- I think you can do it now.
-Yes, I think so too, if that his secretary gives him ..
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Chapter cabinet
-Ichiro, come in.
-What did you decide?
-I think you yourself know the answer to your question ... ..
-I didn't doubt you, I knew that you wouldn't leave your friends in trouble knowing that they were suffering. This is in all Uzumaki's blood.
-Yes
Yeah, I have nothing else to do how to go to save my "friends", they did not give up to me at all, I go there for their research, because as far as I remember in this world, improving my body is a common thing.
- Well then, get ready, you will perform in a week, you will go with the offensive forces and upon arrival will go to the laboratory, you will attack after the main forces strike.
-Got it if I can go.
-Yes Go.
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For training and rest, this week flew by. I also prepared for this day, prepared seals there, replenished my stock of throwing weapons, and of course captured the swords of the foggers, I think they will definitely not be superfluous on such a dangerous mission, although taking them there I will be like a red rag in front of a bull's eyes, By the way, as I learned once the bulls are furious from the rag and not from its color.
-Ichiro-san, we're moving out. Now we will go on ships, then there on the spot we will meet the forces of the Bear and begin to attack their departure point, you have to act after us.
- Okay, what about the captain?
-It will be Koda-san, jounin, I think in the time it will take us to arrive at Kiri's territory, you will meet him. He really wanted to meet you, because he also met with jinchuriki.
-Mmmm ok, got it
Hmmm, we still have to swim, how can I not like it, where is my twenty-first century with its technologies ?! But in the anime, they often keep silent about this, well, yes, after all, sailing to the island for almost a week is not so interesting, and this figure may even increase depending on the weather.
-Hey, so are you Ichiro?
Somehow quickly he found me ... ..
- Call me Code, nice to meet you. I hope we get along.
Said a big man of about thirty, and held out his hand to me, which, by the way, was all covered in scars, and I must admit, on the whole, he was very brutal: small stubble, a vest over a sleeveless raincoat, which visually makes his big hands even larger, only his face is the most ordinary , and in general for me all faces are ordinary, if they are not too beautiful or vice versa. I remember once reading a Chinese book so they have one more beautiful than another, some kind of nonsense.
- Yes, me too, captain.
- I hope we get to our destination quickly. By the way, I heard that you met the jinchuriki, so did I. In that battle, I lost my ear, although I lost it not because of this monster, but because of the crazy kunai. As I remember yesterday, it was on the border of the Land of Grass and Fire, we accompanied, it means, some kind of merchant and there we were attacked by a two-tailed one who belongs to the Cloud, I don't know how he got there, but he patted us notably, we put about twenty of ours, then Our Head and Konoha, threatening them with war, demanded an explanation, and they simply sent compensation in money, I wanted to go and beg the head for revenge, but due to the fact that the world was already not calm, we had to swallow our pride.
-But now it's another matter, the war has already begun, and I will try with all my might to go to war with Kumo, no matter what it costs me, I will take revenge on these scumbags.
-Yes a sad story….
-Well, now you then tell us about your meeting with this monster.
-Ha ... you know, I just realized that our stories are a bit similar ... ..
-Hooo well then, don't be too tired, since they are similar, I think I can understand your feelings at that moment.
-Well, it all started with the fact that we were ordered to accompany the caravan ... ...
-You look and really look alike….
- Don't interrupt, please….
-Sorry…
-So...
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-Shit, apparently everyone who meets these cursed creatures has the same destiny.
-Yeah
Damn, yes, this man drove his head a little, he is obsessed with these tailed beasts and considers these poor fellows, if you remember Naruto, Gaara, B, evil spirits, they do not decide what to do, this is just an illusion of choice, everything is decided for them by the elders and kage. Hmm, I was scared for our operation and for myself as a whole.
I hope I survive this mission.